this is going to be quick

because this girl has got to get focused and back to work. wanted to take a minute though to post updates about the davidson clan. here we go:

• miles is getting huge, he goes for a 4 month check up next week so we'll see how much he weighs, my guess is 17 or so pounds.
• he is going to bed, unswaddled i might add, at around 8:30. he seems SOOO tired when we put him to bed but he is somehow waking up. i think he's still getting used to not have his arms stuck to his sides in the swaddle. last night he woke up at 1 and at 4.
• teaching a baby how to sleep is "the pits" as my grandma used to say. we sometimes have the willpower to let him cry it out. it is pure torture but we are doing it not out of frustration with him, but so that he learns that he can do it on his own and doesn't need to be rocked. hopefully not too much longer of this.
• ben and i go to bed EARLY. and by early i mean as soon as we can get our teeth brushed, our golden oreos eaten, and the bottles ready for the night. therefore, we are usually in bed by 9:30 at the latest. one night this week, we were in bed watching tv and this is how our conversation went: ben: "goodnight", me: "goodnight", ben: "and goodnight means I love you and don't talk to me anymore tonight." hahaha. he better be glad i have a sense of humor. we have to take advantage of our own sleep when mr. miles is catching his z's.

that's it for today. oh and happy birthday jonathan!!!

i think i can.....

Let's see if this works. He REALLY wants to turn over, guess I can't walk away from the changing table because for some reason he tries harder there than he does when he is on the floor!!

be still my heart.

so its been a while since i've blogged. I need to be better about this considering when i am feeding miles in the middle of the night i love to catch up on my blog reading on my phone. hopefully those night feedings will be few and far between sooner than i know. He now sleeps from 10-4:30 ish then back down until around 7. We are going to start putting him down earlier and try an 8-8 schedule. we'll see how that goes. i know the whole "cry it out" method is going in effect pretty soon so i'm keeping my fingers crossed that it will not take him very many nights for that.

this weekend is kind of a big deal. miles will be dedicated at our church on saturday, then we are having a cookout afterwards. i got him a spiffy outfit for the occasion. pics to follow of that scene.

other than that we have settled in to our "new normal". i managed to get back on the treadmill last week and ben has been doing yard work. we are still sleeping upstairs in the bedroom next to the nursery, which we actually really like. norm is still norm. just to give you an idea of how our mornings go, one day last week ben had to open at the course and so he fed norm on the way out of the house. norm comes back upstairs and gets back in bed with me (I didn't notice he had gotten up and went downstairs with Ben). Then I get up about 30 minutes later, get Miles, go downstairs, make a bottle, put a pot of coffee on, and feed norm. yep, norm ate 4 cups of dog food and a bone for breakfast. then i checked my phone to see a text that ben said he fed him. if you've ever seen norm eat you know that there is no sign in that bowl that he is ever fed, its always empty. those are the kinds of things that we laugh and say "oh well". no time or energy to worry about it!

my next blog will probably be about the disastrous nights that are ahead when we stop swaddling him when he sleeps!